New research says it might have something to do with “motivational reasoning.” “People completely ignore contrary information” and “develop elaborate rationalizations based on faulty information,” says one scholar. Sharon Begley reports.
HEY, I WAS RIGHT!
Seriously, our unwillingness to look at new information and adapt to it is proving to be our downfall. Whether you think Obama is a Muslim, all Muslims are terrorists, the Democrats in power will somehow make the world a better place, that Obama isn’t doing a lot of what Bush did, or that our economy is actually turning around, if you can’t face reality and deal with it, reality will deal with you.
We can adapt, history has proven that. The fact that we don’t says we’re willingly not educating ourselves.
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